The purpose of this study was to determine the use of the computer in higher education at state-supported senior colleges and universities in the United States. The following findings and conclusions are based on the information gained from the study. 1. The average number of years computers have been used by institutions of higher education is ten. The length of time increases with both the level of offering and the enrollment of the institution. 2. A greater emphasis is placed on administrative use of the computer than on other uses. 3. A majority of the institutions have one centralized computer center that provides services to all users. Also, the majority of the individual computer users are provided the services without explicit charges or are only charged for a part of the services. 4. Policies pertaining to the use of the computer are most frequently formulated by the director of the computer center and a computer usage committee. 5. The amount of money spent for each of the different categories for expenditures (administrative, academic, and research) increases with the level of offering of the institutions. 6. Sixty-eight per cent of the institutions now offer an academic program in computer science and offer bachelor's, master's, and doctor's degrees. Six per cent of the total students in the responding institutions are enrolled in computer science courses. 7. Although use for research was the first use of the computer in higher education, that use is now the least frequent. 8. The computer hardware systems used by institutions of higher education vary both in size and in manufacturer. There are more IBM computers being used than any other make. 9. There is no standardization of computer languages; the ten most frequently used ones are FORTRAN, COBOL, ASSEMBLER, BASIC, RPG, P L/1 , ALGOL, SNOBOL, GPSS, and APL.

The recent advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) over the past two decades have influenced many aspects of live ([19] and [7]). These advances make the issue of acceptance of ICTs a topic of increasing importance, particularly in educational research and practice [18]. Many studies have been conducted to understand, explain, and predict the issue of acceptance and use of new technologies. Fortunately, these studies have resulted in several serious theoretical developments [9]. Overall understanding of the role of culture and social norms in influencing acceptance and use of education technologies, particularly collaborative and interactive technologies such as the internet, can facilitate the successful implementation and use of these technologies in the educational context. This study concentrates on providing insight into the influence of culture and social processes on staff members’ acceptance and use of educational technology, namely the internet at Khartoum state universities (KSUs). Specifically, the study aims to identify the influential role of these factors on acceptance and the use of the internet as a helpful collaborative educational technology. To achieve this aim, the study adopts technology acceptance model (TAM), which is modified (i.e. extended) with Hofstede’s cultural dimensions (mainly uncertainty avoidance and masculinity). With the help of a structural equation model (SEM), the data assessment demonstrates the validity of the model and proves that social influence process and cultural factors have significant (direct and moderate) influence on staff members’ acceptance and use of internet technology for teaching and academic activities – i.e. the authors are able to assert that community matters in the adoption of these new ICTs. The article concludes by offering important implications and recommendations for both research and practice.

En prenant le contre-pied des méthodes généralisées et universalisantes d’évaluation mondiale des institutions de la science, la présente thèse décrit les savoirs générés par le discours universitaire au moment de leur mise à l’épreuve de validation par des instances d’évaluation d’un espace localisé. Le cadre d’observation est le système d’évaluation en vigueur au Cameroun qui sert de dispositif de promotion sociale des enseignants-chercheurs, et de légitimation du travail universitaire. Le décryptage des formes de savoirs produits en situation d’évaluation endogène prend appui sur l’épistémologie historique et l’archéologie foucaldienne des discours. Les résultats de l’analyse montrent que le savoir produit, s’inscrivant dans une temporalité discursive est anonyme et marqué historiquement, culturellement et géographiquement. Ce savoir appartient en outre à un réseau de discours qui dépasse la seule sphère des universités et des disciplines. Les mécanismes et stratégies d’élaboration des savoirs sont soumis à des règles et à des normes qui elles-mêmes produisent de manière permanente des formes de pouvoir. Les référents théoriques et méthodologiques mobilisés dans ce travail participent à l’enrichissement des cadres de référence traditionnels des sciences de l’information et de la communication. / In addition to the general and universal evaluation methods of scientific instituions, this thesis describes knowledge generated by university discourse during validation by local authorities. The framework of experience is the evaluation system in force in Cameroon which serves as social promotion for university lecturers and researchers and legitimizes university work. Deciphering forms of knowledge produced in an endogenous evaluation system is based on historical epistemology and Foucaldian archeology of discourse. The results of the analysis show that knowledge produced falls within the purview of discursive temporality and is anonymous and geographically, culturally and historically marked. It belongs moreover to a network of discourse which goes beyond the lone sphere of universities and disciplines. Knowledge generation mechanisms and strategies are subject to rules and standards which themselves permanently produce forms of power. The theoretical and methodological referents mobilised in this work contribute to the development of traditional frames of information and communication sciences

The diploma thesis concerns itself with a struggle of the administration of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia to deal with the consequences of the German action of 17th November, when as a revenge for previous demonstrations Czech universities in the Protectorate were closed and more than a thousand of their students were arrested and sent to concentration camps in Germany. The thesis is divided into 4 main chapters. The first one concerns itself concisely with reasons, course and immediate consequences of the German "Special action of 17th November 1939". The content of the second chapter is formed by an exposition of a struggle to achieve liberation of the jailed students and their comeback home that was realised by the interventions of the state president Hácha and the Protectorate government at the representatives of the occupation regime; and then an inquest of their tactics and its successfulness at these interventions. A topic of the next chapter is a description and an analysis of the problems accompanying the closure of Czech universities, with which the Protectorate government was also forced to deal. Among them there were for example a placement of the students, who were not jailed but prevented from continuing in their studies and whom the Protectorate government strove to protect...

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:57:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mirian Ferreira de Brito.pdf: 4515414 bytes, checksum: c88943f21f067fcb81b92d35805f1297 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-11-13 / Universidade do Estado da Bahia / Studies and research on early childhood education gained greater prominence in the past five decades, it was motivated by the Federal Constitution, which recognized this educational stage and included it as part of basic education. Such change ensured some rights to the children, but even with advances and documents about it, even as the Guidelines and Curriculum Framework, some gaps are still visible in teacher training at this stage of education. Thus, we seek answers for regarding questions to the courses and curriculum, where such teachers graduate, particularly in mathematics, for being part of our training universe, work and studies. Thus, we seek through this qualitative approach research, to analyze aspects of teacher training to mathematical knowledge in the curriculum structures of the Degrees in Education, of the Bahia State Universities, taking into account three components: theoretical concepts about of the mathematics, specific mathematical content and practical contents of the mathematics. Therefore, we analyzed the flow charts and summary of the curriculum components, presenting mathematical knowledge, as well as profissiográficos profiles of courses. As main results, we can see the flow charts, which from the eighteen presented courses, only three of them exhibited two curriculum components, and the others exhibited only one component. In the summary, we checked that ten components showed no specific contents of mathematics and only six offered the three components. At profissiográficos profiles, we checked that the teaching and management were nominated in all courses, since teaching for early childhood education, despite being recorded in twelve courses, it do not appear on any of them. In this way, the data disclosed in the general training and/or fast by the ampleness of indicated performances in the courses, and also confirmation of low workload for researched mathematical contents theoretical, specific and practical / Estudos e pesquisas sobre educação infantil ganharam maior destaque nas últimas cinco décadas, motivadas pela Constituição Federal, que reconheceu esta etapa educacional e a incluiu como parte da educação básica. Tal mudança, assegurou alguns direitos à criança, mas, mesmo com os avanços e documentos relacionados a isso, como as Diretrizes e o Referencial Curricular, algumas lacunas ainda são visíveis nas formações de professores para essa etapa da educação. Deste modo, procuramos respostas para questionamentos referentes aos cursos e à estrutura curricular, onde formam tais professores, particularmente em relação à matemática, por fazer parte de nosso universo de formação, trabalho e estudos. Assim, buscamos através dessa pesquisa, de cunho qualitativo, analisar aspectos relativos à formação do professor para os conhecimentos matemáticos, nas estruturas curriculares das Licenciaturas em Pedagogia, das Universidades Estaduais da Bahia, levando em consideração três vertentes: conteúdos teóricos sobre a matemática, conteúdos matemáticos específicos e os conteúdos de práticas da matemática. Para tanto, analisamos os fluxogramas e as ementas dos componentes curriculares, que apresentaram conhecimentos matemáticos, assim como os perfis profissiográficos dos Cursos. Como principais resultados, podemos observar nos fluxogramas, que dos dezoito Cursos apresentados, somente três deles apresentaram dois componentes curriculares, e que os demais apresentaram somente um componente. Nas ementas, verificamos que dez componentes não apresentaram conteúdos matemáticos específicos, e apenas seis ofertavam as três vertentes. Nos perfis profissiográficos, verificamos que a docência e gestão foram indicadas em todos os Cursos, sendo que a docência para a educação infantil, apesar de estar registrada em doze Cursos, não aparece exclusivamente em qualquer um deles. Desse modo, os dados nos revelaram formações generalistas e/ou aligeiradas pela amplitude de atuações indicadas nos Cursos e, ainda, constatação de baixa carga horária para os conteúdos de matemática pesquisados teóricos, específicos e práticos

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No. of bitstreams: 2 Tese - Renata Ramos da Silva Carvalho - 2018.pdf: 4606190 bytes, checksum: be46a59437a9a4c7611096ff9e27e4fa (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-04-10 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Goiás - FAPEG / The main goal of this study is to investigate and to present what would be the necessary enlargement of undergraduate and strictu sensu graduate enrollments, and of the expansion funds, so that the SUs, by the state of the federation, could contribute to the success of the NEP goals (2014-2024) for higher education. Furthermore, this study also aims to evaluate the first two years of the implementation of the targets 12, 13 and 14, and to carry out the projection of its challenges for the country by the year 2024; to comprehend how the SUs are inserted in the context of higher education in Brazil; to identify the main institutional and academic characteristics and the main asymmetries in the set of Brazilian State Universities; to detect the main existing asymmetries in the group of Brazilian SUs; to analyze the content of the goals for higher education of the State Education Plans (SEPs), to investigate the average cost and expense per student of the SUs; to estimate what would be the necessary increase of resources, as a percentage of national and state GDP, so that the states, through their SUs, can contribute to the achievement of these goals. From the methodological point of view, the first step of this research has shown to be an exploratory study which later developed into a descriptive, critical interpretative study that has been subsidized by documental and bibliographic research, collection and analysis of statistical data for the accomplishment of projection estimation presented here. This study is composed of four main categories of analysis: the expansion of Brazilian higher education, the education plans (national and state), the institutional and academic profile of the UEs, and, finally, the funding of the SUs. These categories are theoretically supported by the studies of Aguiar (2010), Amaral e Pinto (2005), Amaral (2016), Dourado (2010, 2011, 2016, 2017), Fialho (2011, 2012), Martins (2000), Oliveira and Dourado (2016), Oliveira (2011), Ranieri (2000), Sguissardi (2000, 2014), among others. The data collected by this study reveal that the challenges of expansion and funding are audacious for the states to contribute to the PNE (2014-2024) goals for higher education. Therefore, it is defended as a thesis that although the SUs integrate the same administrative category as "state public universities", they are constituted by a set of HEIs marked by institutional asymmetries in several aspects: as to its architecture of spatial organization; to the characteristics of offer of their undergraduate enrollments, as to the qualification of its academic staff; as regarding the offer and performance in the stricto sensu post-graduate course ; its statutory regulations; in terms of their funding; and regarding its challenges of expansion towards the goals of the PNE (2014-2024) for higher education. This study understands that the asymmetries identified in the set of the SUs are mainly due to the fact that they have very different contexts regarding their creation, structuring, and functioning, and because they are subordinated to different maintainers (states of the federation) and to distinct academic, institutional regulations and financial capacity. Moreover, it is argued that the challenges of the SUs in front of the PNE (2014-2024) goals for higher education explicit the present contradictions in terms of the higher education offer promoted by these institutions, in terms of its funding, and in terms of the regional inequalities of this group of HEIs. These contradictions and the imperative challenges of enrollment expansion and the increase in the funding, necessary for the SUs to contribute to the success of these goals, allows us to affirm that there are objective limits which compromise the effective participation of the states in reaching these goals for higher education in brazil, through their SUs. Moreover, it is possible to affirm that the effectiveness of the content proposed by the PNE strategy 12.18 (2014-2024) is of fundamental importance for the states of the federation to contribute to the achievement of these goals for higher education, through their SUs. / Este estudo possui como principal objetivo investigar e apresentar qual seria a expansão necessária de matrículas de graduação e pós-graduação stricto sensu e a ampliação no financiamento para que as UEs, por estado da federação, possam contribuir com o êxito das metas do PNE (2014-2024) para a educação superior. Para além deste, objetiva-se também: avaliar os dois primeiros anos de vigência das metas 12, 13 e 14 e realizar a projeção de seus desafios para o país e até o ano de 2024; compreender como as UEs estão inseridas no contexto da educação superior do país; identificar as principais características institucionais e acadêmicas e as principais assimetrias no conjunto das UEs brasileiras; analisar o conteúdo das metas para a educação superior dos Planos Estaduais de Educação (PEEs); apurar o custo e o gasto médio do aluno das UEs por estado da federação; estimar qual seria a ampliação necessária de recursos, como percentual do PIB nacional e estadual, para que os estados, por meio de suas UEs, contribuíssem para o alcance dessas metas. Do ponto de vista metodológico, a primeira etapa desta pesquisa mostrou-se como um estudo exploratório, que depois evoluiu para um estudo descritivo de caráter crítico e interpretativo, sendo subsidiado por pesquisa documental, bibliográfica, levantamento e tratamento de dados estatísticos para a realização dos cálculos das projeções apresentadas. Este estudo é composto por quatro principais categorias de análise: a expansão da educação superior no Brasil, os planos de educação (o nacional e os estaduais), o perfil institucional e acadêmico das UEs e, por fim, o financiamento das UEs. Essas categorias apoiam-se teoricamente nos estudos de Aguiar (2010), Amaral e Pinto (2005), Amaral (2016), Dourado (2010, 2011, 2016, 2017), Fialho (2011, 2012), Martins (2000), Oliveira e Dourado (2016), Oliveira (2011), Ranieri (2000), Sguissardi (2000, 2014), entre outros. Os dados levantados por este estudo revelam que são audaciosos os desafios de expansão e financiamento para que os estados possam contribuir com as metas do PNE (2014-2024) para a educação superior. Portanto, defende-se como tese que, embora as UEs integrem a mesma categoria administrativa sendo “universidades públicas estaduais”, elas se constituem por um conjunto de IES marcado por assimetrias institucionais em diversos aspectos: quanto à sua arquitetura de organização espacial; quanto às características de oferta das suas matrículas de graduação; quanto à titulação de seu corpo docente; quanto à oferta e atuação na pós-graduação stricto sensu; quanto às suas regulamentações normativas; quanto ao seu financiamento; quanto aos seus desafios de expansão perante as metas do PNE (2014-2024) para a educação superior. Este estudo compreende que essas assimetrias idenficadas no conjunto das UEs são decorrentes, principalmente, do fato de elas possuírem contextos muito distintos quanto à sua criação, estruturação e funcionamento e por estarem subordinadas a mantenedores (estados da federação) e regulamentações acadêmicas, institucionais e capacidade financeira distintos. Defende-se ainda que os desafios das UEs perante as metas do PNE (2014-2024) para a educação superior explicitam as contradições presentes quanto à oferta de educação superior promovida por essas instituições, quanto ao seu financiamento e quanto às desigualdades regionais desse conjunto de IES. Essas contradições e os imperativos desafios de expansão de matrículas e ampliação no financiamento necessário para que as UEs possam contribuir com o êxito dessas metas permitem-nos afirmar que existem limites de caráter objetivo que comprometem a efetiva participação dos estados, por meio de suas UEs, no alcance dessas metas para a educação superior no Brasil. É possível afirmar ainda que a efetivação do conteúdo proposto pela estratégia 12.18 do PNE (2014-2024) é de fundamental importância para que os estados da federação, por meio de suas UEs, contribuam para o alcance dessas metas.

The recent advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) over the past two decades have influenced many aspects of live ([19] and [7]). These advances make the issue of acceptance of ICTs a topic of increasing importance, particularly in educational research and practice [18]. Many studies have been conducted to understand, explain, and predict the issue of acceptance and use of new technologies. Fortunately, these studies have resulted in several serious theoretical developments [9]. Overall understanding of the role of culture and social norms in influencing acceptance and use of education technologies, particularly collaborative and interactive technologies such as the internet, can facilitate the successful implementation and use of these technologies in the educational context. This study concentrates on providing insight into the influence of culture and social processes on staff members’ acceptance and use of educational technology, namely the internet at Khartoum state universities (KSUs). Specifically, the study aims to identify the influential role of these factors on acceptance and the use of the internet as a helpful collaborative educational technology. To achieve this aim, the study adopts technology acceptance model (TAM), which is modified (i.e. extended) with Hofstede’s cultural dimensions (mainly uncertainty avoidance and masculinity). With the help of a structural equation model (SEM), the data assessment demonstrates the validity of the model and proves that social influence process and cultural factors have significant (direct and moderate) influence on staff members’ acceptance and use of internet technology for teaching and academic activities – i.e. the authors are able to assert that community matters in the adoption of these new ICTs. The article concludes by offering important implications and recommendations for both research and practice.

This study investigated how institutional conditions and cultures enabled or impeded the development and implementation of academic professional development programmes in Zimbabwe State universities. The study was prompted by undervaluing of academic professional development in Zimbabwe State universities manifested by its absence in half of the institutions. Literature suggests that factors that enable or impede implementation of academic staff development programmes include irrelevant academic professional programmes and influence of departmental cultures. The critical theory paradigm guided this study because the intention was to change and transform teaching practices by gaining insights on academics‘ perspectives on conditions that influence implementation of academic staff development programmes. A qualitative study was employed where interviews, focus group discussions, documents and questionnaires were used. Two state universities were conveniently sampled from which sixteen academics, four deans, two Directors of the Teaching and Learning Centres and two Vice Chancellors were purposively selected to participate in the study. The research produced findings reflecting that disciplines have huge influence on the development and implementation of academic professional development in higher education institutions. The scholarship of research constrained the scholarship of teaching in higher education practice. It was realised that academics‘ research interests subordinate teaching interests and by implication academic professional development programmes. This influences academics to have negative attitudes towards academic professional development programmes resulting in poor uptake of the programmes. It also emerged from the findings that promotion policies favour research over teaching resulting in academics marginalising teaching in their academic roles. It also emerged clearly as well that good researchers are not necessarily good teachers and that holding a PhD does not translate an academic to be a good teacher. However, it also emerged that departmental cultures can be used to promote interdisciplinary research which academic professional development might embrace in its practice. The research experienced limitations in terms of time and threat to confidentiality but their effects were countered through control measures effected by the researcher. The study recommends that State universities should set up teaching and learning centres that will lead in the development of a culture that values teaching and learning in faculties in which academic professional development programmes will professionalize university teaching The study also recommends that academic professional development should address needs of academics for them to be relevant and that their approach should include formal courses such as Post Graduate Diploma in Higher Education in which teaching in higher education is valued / Curriculum and Instructional Studies / D. Ed. (Curriculum Studies)

This study set-out to examine how university-industry linkage (UIL) is managed in government universities of Ethiopia to contribute to the economic development of the country. Basic questions related to the level of management of UIL, areas of linkage, benefits obtained so far from this partnership, challenges to the proper management of UIL, and the existing opportunities for promoting UIL were raised. In addition to this, strategies for strengthening UIL were also dealt with. In relation to this, the study was framed with the system theory viewpoints and human capital theory viewing universities as a system linked to its external environment like industries. As a model, interactive/balanced type of Triple Helix model was used as it integrates the activities of the government, universities and the industries. Moreover, this study reviewed global perspectives on UIL and an overview of the study context with greater emphasis on higher education reforms and proclamations. Philosophically, this study followed pragmatism research paradigm using mixed research approach. It also employed concurrent/parallel/convergent design in which both quantitative and qualitative data were collected simultaneously, interpreted separately and combined at the time of discussion for better understanding of the problem. Equal importance for both data sets was given. Data were gathered from 99 college deans and department heads, 200 instructors and 316 prospective graduates. In addition to this, 23 interviewees from UILOs, industries, MoE, and MoST took part in this study. Moreover, two focus group discussions were also conducted with the university alumni and data were gathered through survey questionnaires, semi-structured interview, FGD question guides and document reviews. The study result indicated that both quantitative and qualitative data support one another. It was found out that UIL was at its infant stage of development in government universities of Ethiopia with limited areas, dominated by students’ internship. Ethiopian government universities have a link with the industries in areas of some limited joint research projects, consultancies and capacity building. Consequently, universities benefitted by attaching their students with the industries and students got practical exposure to the real world of work. Industries also benefitted from the training provided to them, consultancies and joint research projects. On the other hand, UIL in government universities of Ethiopia was challenged by institutional bottlenecks, policy-practice gaps, contextual variation and information gaps, finance and awareness related caveats, work overload, and facility related hurdles. Moreover, lack of trust and commitment between U & I, lack of commitment and support from the leadership of both universities and industries, and the reluctance of the local industries to work with the universities remained a big rift to UIL. This study also sheds light on the expansion of universities and industries in different parts of the country as the opportunities to be tapped to promote UIL. Further, the attention of the government by designing different policies, strategies, directives and conferences was taken as the opportunity. As a major contribution, this study came up with the model that was designed to improve the practice of management of UIL in government universities of Ethiopia. To overcome the above challenges and to make use of existing opportunities, it was recommended that improving leadership and management related challenges through joint planning, organising, staffing and decision-making. Moreover, it was highly laudable to make a paradigm shift in the roles of universities from teaching dominated to research and innovation universities. Finally, bridging policy-practice gaps, increase networking, arranging various sensitising and advertising programmes and creating a further avenue for more research were commented. / Educational Leadership and Management / D. Ed. (Education Management)

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